World War II Photograph from Battle of Iwo Jima

World War II Photograph: A weary Marine is snapped by a Coast Guard combat photographer sprawled in slumber on Iwo Jima’s ashy sands and gripping his sheath knife against enemy intrusion upon his rest. It is during a lull in the fighting to secure the Iwo beachhead, when Marines and Coast Guardsmen caught what sleep they could in foxholes and shell craters.

A weary Marine is snapped by a Coast Guard combat photographer sprawled in slumber on Iwo Jima’s ashy sands and gripping his sheath knife against enemy intrusion upon his rest. It is during a lull in the fighting to secure the Iwo beachhead, when Marines and Coast Guardsmen caught what sleep they could in foxholes and shell craters.

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